The Journalist Enquiry Service turns the pitching process on its head – journalists reach out to PR and comms professionals for help with articles, reviews, case studies, spokespeople, locations and celebrities. Following our acquisition of ...

Planning your PR and marketing campaigns for 2019? AM+A Marketing and Media Relations has picked up two awards in 2018: the Campaign Challenges Award at the PRCA Dare Awards and the Arts, Culture or Sport Campaign 2018 at ...

The Creative Shootout competition is back for 2019 and is now open for entries. Agency teams from all marketing disciplines are being called on to show off their creative talent to tackle plastic pollution. For ...

The way that PR and comms teams are using social media channels is changing, with more focus on paid campaigns and less on customer service. Last week, the PRCA’s Digital PR and Communications Report found ...

Sarah Stimson, former CEO of the Taylor Bennett Foundation has today launched a new consultancy that aims to help businesses in the creative industry develop their talent and become more diverse. Ladder Talent will work ...

This week’s Five Things You Shouldn’t Have Missed includes the one with the injunction, the one with the David Schwimmer lookalike, the one with the departing Radio 2 host, the one with the Facebook ads ...

The PRCA is strengthening its support of virtual agencies by opening a new Business Centre. Based in the PRCA’s south London offices, and available exclusively to PRCA Members, the PRCA Business Centre is open weekdays, ...

Taylor Herring was the big winner at the PRWeek Awards 2018, scooping six awards and being highly commended for a further three. Hot on its heels were 90TEN and The Romans, who both picked up ...

Platinum is the new book celebrating the 70th anniversary of the CIPR. With 50 thought leaders contributing over 45 chapters, the book is the most compelling argument yet that public relations is a strategic management ...

Stephen Waddington, chief engagement officer at Ketchum, has been appointed UK managing director at international digital marketing agency Metia. Stephen will join Metia from Ketchum in January 2019 where he’s worked for the past six years ...

With news that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is ‘actively considering’ launching an investigation into the digital advertising market, is it time to reassess your digital strategy? The Guardian reports that the comments were ...

The University of Westminster has an international reputation and strives to ensure the very highest standards are met and maintained. We spoke to Poppy Crispin, Head of Communications at the University, to find out more ...

Vuelio, the stakeholder engagement software company, buys journalist request and media database provider ResponseSource. Access Intelligence Plc, the parent company of Vuelio, has acquired ResponseSource Ltd for a cash-and-shares consideration of £5.5 million to create ...

It’s the end of an era, you might say. Google has announced it is to close the consumer Google+ network, following a massive data flaw it did not report, allegedly for fear of regulation.    ...

Last week, Vuelio and Lansons co-hosted an AI in PR event as part of the CIPR Ethics Festival. Sessions were led by a broad cross-section of industry leaders, who discussed chatbots, automating comms channels and ...

Is your influencer marketing a hit? Or are fake followers plaguing your results? Ethics in influencer marketing has never been so visible or discussed; just today the issue raised its head again, with Love Island’s ...

This week’s Five Things covers a week of news (see what we did there?). We have a new social media warning, a new President-Elect, a new development in GDPR, a new presenter for Radio 4’s ...

Jenni Field, director of Redefining Communications and co-founder of The IC Crowd, has been named President-Elect of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations for 2019, having stood unopposed in the 2018 Election. Field, who will ...

The CIPR has launched a new campaign to highlight the importance of public relations to the business community. #PRPays will feature video interviews with leading chief executives, discussing the benefits of strategic public relations. The ...

Here, Becky Trotman, senior media relations office at Thames Water, tells us how Vuelio is demonstrating value internally and why an integrated solution is necessary to meet the demands of a busy newsroom.  Thames Water ...